Quotes About Artistry

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

The 'machine-gun' approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

Your humanity is your instrument.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.